The past few days have been crazy! We did finally get an internet connection in the house, so I am able to write on this blog at last.
My flight from Amsterdam to Athens was all right. There was a lot of turbulence. The Greek couple next to me tried very hard to talk to me despite the fact that they knew no English and I know no modern Greek. The sky was beautiful.
On the 7th we started fieldwork, which I can't say much about. Really, it's not that complicated. It's just a surface collection. We have a lot of artifacts, though, and the work is going pretty quickly. We are between 1/2 and 1/3 of the way through the area we have to survey. We should be finished in another couple of days.
It is hard work but I am doing better than I expected to. My legs were killing me the first few days, and I've been taking painkillers. But today I felt great. I am a bit sore now but generally I think I am getting stronger.
I've learned how to do flotation, which is a method of gathering the contents of a soil sample, such as stones, shell, and seeds. We got to see another amazing sunset out at a farm doing flotation.
I don't really have any photos to share of the work - we don't want people to know where we are and try to loot the place. I can't imagine anything they'd find would be very valuable, but you never know what people are thinking, I guess.
Even though I am enjoying myself, I will be happy to get home, sleep in my own bed without my face feeding mosquitoes all night, and take a bath without flooding the bathroom. Oh, and do laundry. I miss clean clothes. I miss being clean in general. It's impossible to do fieldwork and stay clean. Even if I was able to bathe properly and do laundry every night, I'd just get filthy again the next day.
But mostly, I'd really like the mosquitoes to leave me alone. I mean, look what they've already done to my face:
My flight from Amsterdam to Athens was all right. There was a lot of turbulence. The Greek couple next to me tried very hard to talk to me despite the fact that they knew no English and I know no modern Greek. The sky was beautiful.
We even got to see a beautiful sunset not long before landing.
On the 7th we started fieldwork, which I can't say much about. Really, it's not that complicated. It's just a surface collection. We have a lot of artifacts, though, and the work is going pretty quickly. We are between 1/2 and 1/3 of the way through the area we have to survey. We should be finished in another couple of days.
It is hard work but I am doing better than I expected to. My legs were killing me the first few days, and I've been taking painkillers. But today I felt great. I am a bit sore now but generally I think I am getting stronger.
I've learned how to do flotation, which is a method of gathering the contents of a soil sample, such as stones, shell, and seeds. We got to see another amazing sunset out at a farm doing flotation.
I don't really have any photos to share of the work - we don't want people to know where we are and try to loot the place. I can't imagine anything they'd find would be very valuable, but you never know what people are thinking, I guess.
Even though I am enjoying myself, I will be happy to get home, sleep in my own bed without my face feeding mosquitoes all night, and take a bath without flooding the bathroom. Oh, and do laundry. I miss clean clothes. I miss being clean in general. It's impossible to do fieldwork and stay clean. Even if I was able to bathe properly and do laundry every night, I'd just get filthy again the next day.
But mostly, I'd really like the mosquitoes to leave me alone. I mean, look what they've already done to my face:
And I have to wear earplugs at night so that they don't wake me up in the process of doing this to me. At least most of it doesn't itch.
Oh well. It is a very exciting project and I really am happy to be here. But I will also be happy to return to the comforts of home.
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